Improvement in cheese-vats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRANCIS E. DAY, OF KENNEDY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT I N CHEESE-VTS.

Specication forming part of Letters PatentNo. 122,232, dated December 26, 1871.V

. facture of butter, for cooling milk by means of cold water, or in the manufacture of both butter y and cheese at the same time, in any case the water being conducted outside the pans holding the milk and drawn oil' therefrom after discharging their function.

Referring to the drawing, A is a wooden frame holding oiie or'more horizontal pans, a, placed one above another, inside of which are pans b for holding milk, there being spaces c between the bottoms, sides, and ends of the inner pans, and the same part-s of the outer pans for the iiow of Water. A water-reservoir, d, is attached to one end of the uppermost pan a, to the bottomvof which reservoir is fastened a furnace, e. The dividing wall f betweenthe reservoird and the pan a. has set in it a vertical tube, g, with a slot in each side, thus establishing communication between the reservoir and the pan, a cock, h, being placed in the tube g to govern the How of water through the latter. Tubes 'i for drawing off milk run through both theinner and outerpans. Wasteways j are placed near the tops of the pans a, and at the bottoms of these pans are tubesk fordrawing o" all the water. A pipe, l, provided with a cock, n, connects the reservoir d with the lower pan a, aud between the latter and the furnace e is situated a fender, m.

Whether cheese or butter, or both, are to be manufactured, the reservoir d is lled with water. To make cheese, a tire is lighted in the furnace and hot water sent into all the spa-ces c. To make cheese in the upper pan and, at the same time, cream in the lower one, the cockn must be closed before lighting the lire. Then the fender m prevents the lower pan from heating. For making cream in all the pans, ice may be placed, in warm weather, in the reservoir d to cool the water.

An ordinary dairymans outfit for making butter costs from one hundred totwo hundred doly 

